> At 10:42 AM -0700 9/16/99, Steven Hudson wrote:
Speaking of Traveller, I've just posted a reference diagram at
http://www.flash.net/~maserati/ID/jovianCampaign.html as a
visualization aid for Full Thrust-based games around a gas giant. The
one picture online to date has the first three major moons of Jupiter (Io,
Europa and Ganymede in alignment, with Thebe actually present but not
visible). I included a 36" sphere to provide a reference for Full Thrust
gaming.
The scale I'm using came from something called "The SolarSystem chart" for
Full Thrust. My copy is unattributed, does anyone know who produced this?
> At 9:27 AM -0700 9/17/99, Steven Hudson wrote:
Like I said, the scale isn't mine, I'm trying to track it down. So far I can't
find it on the web anywhere, nor is it in my email archives. I expect the
author will turn up eventually, and we can ask about the scale then. Failing
that, I'll juggle the scale assumptions if it looks necessary. I can send you
a copy of the file I'm working from; Excel, text or html would be available.
The next step would be sensor radii. I'll probably concern myself with the
following passive sensor radii:
a) small System Defense Boat (400 tons) b) battleship c) orbital facility
The sensor ranges in Fire Fusion & Steel will give me ranges for various sizes
of passive arrays. Those'll be just to give me a ballpark figure of about the
right magnitiude. Visualizing sensor ranges will give us a look at what kind
of sensor coverage you really can put around a gas giant. I can also do an
animation so you can see the sensor spheres from the orbital facilities
orbiting the jovian. Needless to say, the poles will have to get a fair amount
of extra attention or any approach from out of the orbital plane will bypass
all your fixed sensor arrays.
In a message dated 09/17/1999 1:54:11 AM Central Daylight Time,
> maserati@flash.net writes:
> The scale I'm using came from something called "The SolarSystem
> produced this ?
Could this be Imre Szabo's Solar System chart? Laserlight has it on his web
page, as do I.
http://members.xoom.com/bstraycat/ft/fthome.htm is my url
Bill "Stray Cat" Shatswell
that's the one! thanks
> At 11:40 AM -0400 9/19/99, BDShatswell@aol.com wrote: